in his new book, michael greenwald writes about the battle over the stimulus package.tes, quote, we're not here to get deals and get crumbs and stay in the minority for another 40 years. cantor, get along republicans who happily supported democratic bills as long as they extracted a bit of pork for themselves. we're not rolling over, he said. we're going to fight these guys. we're down, but things are going to change. when the stimulus bill came up for a vote, every single republican in the house voted no. the measure passed with three republican votes in the senate. michael grunwald, "time" magazine correspondent and author of "the new new deal." great to see you and have you on set. >> thank you for having me. >> let's talk, first, about the stimulus package which has been roundly criticized by republicans in the course of the last, the intervening years. tell us why you think it works? because you lay out a strong case for it as a massive sort of new deal program. >> sure. well, there are sort of two elements of it. the first part was preventing a depression. the se